Presidential Fertilizer Initiative Programme has commenced. Eleven blending plants are in now in full operation in different locations across the country. The fertilizer will be sold to farmers at a price of N5,500 per 50KG bag only by State Governments, registered distributors and dealers registered with FEPSAN. Intrested distributors/dealers to participate in the scheme can register with any of the blending plants and at FEPSAN office at No 1. NIDB Building, Muhammadu Buhari way, Kaduna. Whistle blower Nos: 08175777724, 08175077773

As part of efforts to increase private sector investment in agriculture, the Nigerian Agricultural Business Group (NABG) and 151 Product, stakeholders in the sector are making plans to ensure synergy between farmers, government and the European Union. The Chairman of 151 Product, Sam Ohuabunwa, who stated this yesterday during the ongoing AgrikExpo in Abuja, said lack of information by farmers is the bane of the sector.

Innovation in application of fertilizer makes a Novo Ecijano farmer a record maker in hybrid rice yield.Edgardo “Jose” Marcelo, 51, from Barangay Triala, Guimba, Nueva Ecija, harvested 16.63 metric tons (MT) per hectare in the last harvest season after mixing organic to inorganic fertilizer on Hybrid SL-8H, agriculture experts reported. Marcelo’s yield in the last dry season was 308 cavans from his 1.3 hectare farm. This effectively hit 297 cavans per hectare as bagging was at more than 60 kilos per cavan.

Beside low food production that hallmarked the continent's agrarian economy, post-harvest losses have become the major challenge besetting the quest for food security. But the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has reiterated the importance of policy regulations to end the losses in the continent that spends $35 billion on food imports each year.

Alarmed by the skyrocketing prices of food stuff, coupled with the destruction of farms and crops by locusts and quelea birds in the north, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe, the other day, expressed the fear that more Nigerians may go hungry except something is done to avert the looming crisis.

Fepsan Members

Mission

To provide a platform for the stakeholders in the public and private sectors of the fertilizer industry to develop effective public private partnerships in order to ensure timely supply of adequate quantity and quality fertilizers; and to promote professional, moral and ethical practices in the industry.

Vision

Attain improved productivity and environmental sustainability of Nigerian Agriculture through balanced and judicious use of fertilizers....Attain improved productivity and environmental sustainability of Nigerian Agriculture through balanced and judicious use of fertilizer...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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